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Sunday 05.02.2012

Nuisance bears risk being shot

That's their fate in both Alaska and Norway.

As Alaska wildlife officials continued to search for a grizzly bear believed responsible for several attacks in an Anchorage park, city cops shot and killed a black bear dining on garbage Sunday in a nearby neighborhood.



The grizzly, a sow with two cubs, is wanted because it mauled a runner Friday on the same trail a mountain biker was mauled earlier this summer.

Wildlife officials think the bear is responsible for a number of charges and attacks in recent weeks, and they said they'll kill it if they can find it.

As for the black bear, its death warrant came when police decided it was too bold and too familiar with the neighborhood, reports the Anchorage Daily News.

Police don't carry tranquilizer guns, and no one was available at the state Department of Fish and Game, whom police call when they think darting a bear is an option.

Meanwhile, a Russian scientist shot a polar bear on Svalbard and hunters shot a brown bear on the mainland this week, despite the fact that bears in Norway are protected.

The Russian, who was doing research on north-eastern Svalbard, shot a young male weighing 140 kilos at a range of 60 metres, when it attacked his tent on Saturday.

After firing five warning shots, and five flares, he had four bullets left for the bear, writes news bureau NTB. The incident will automatically be investigated by Governor’s Office on the island dependency.